IRIS is a killing machine. Once its intended victim has been programmed into its memory, it will need no human to operate it. It will wait patiently and unobtrusively for days, or if necessary months, until its intended victim appears. Then it will kill him. IRIS has been programmed to assassinate an international figure whose death will shatter world peace and shift global power. Now all it has to do is wait for him to appear - as he will. And then he will die, unless someone can fand IRIS and disarm it in time.